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1. Kite-flying days are here again, and our cross-word puzzle is right in keeping with the season. Don't let it get you up in the air! The definitions are: HORIZONTAL. . Noise, clamor. . Ancient German tribe (pl.). . Ocean. . A serpent. . The whole. . To lower and raise again. . Real estate (abbr). . Note of the scale. . Flies. 18, Expire, . Fairy. VERTICAL. . A flying toy. . Perform. . New England State (abbr.). . Strong winds. . Travels on water or air. . Organ of hearing. . Watering place. . Having a tail. . Poem, . Referee (abbr.). 2. And here are two excellent word chains that keep the kite flying, Change one letter at a time in order to go from one word to the cther, and form nothing but real words. Change TAIL to KITE in six moves. Change WIND to CORD in five moves. 3 Each of the words below is a city of Asia, but the letters are disarranged. Can you straighten them out? 1. GAINHASH. 2. NAILMA. 3. POSEINRAG, 4. LAUCTCAT. 4 How many objects beginning with the letter K can you find in this picture? There are at 5. Teke a four-letter word for anger, add M, rearrange the letters and form heat. Take a four-letter word for a stringed in- strument, add C, rearrange and form to dry or scorch. Slan gy E.\‘p ressions OST slang expresions live for only a few months or at most a few years. But now and then expressions are so widely used and accepted that they eventually become a real part of our language. When you use such words as “blizzard” and “skyscraper” now you do not feel that you are g in a slangy manner, yet these ex- pressions when first used were as slangy as they could be. “Mob” is another word, the origin of which was the ccmmon, unapproved language of the street, as is “squelch.” THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 6, 1932 [ 67‘5? fi (')'Y"§ .a.nd GIRLS PAGE O] wano canveo wont MOUs® TRAPS RED HOT BARGAING IN ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS ova Us€0 1o TRY 70 | Ll lpanent MAKE 18] PER LB, |oaeine CA el SLITE LWANCH ROOM '® YOU CAN'T MLty WE anT Gor 1v i UNEASX PAYMENTS OPEN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT| AT THE PUNKINVILLE SAND BANK eVEN AN ANT HAS SENSE ENOUGH TQ SAVE UP SOME THIN, FOR TLUE -u'rug.' ARE YOy DuMaER TUAN AN anT? 20 L) Wt Was Gen. Lee a Traitor? Continued from Twelfth Page which would be considered faulty according to later standards. Whatever confusion the lecturer found does not in any manner detract from the certainty and clearness of what was proposed. The scheme does not strike a layman as absurd when, as all of us are aware, Gen. Howe has been taken to task by military critics for doing the very thing which Lee advised he should not do—namely, limit his early efforts to a comparatively small area in the North. Should it be asked what was Lee's motive, one answer might be that in New York, be- sides being envious of Washington, he was renewing his relations with British officers for whom he had considerable respect and ad- miration; that he felt perfectly sure that the Americans could not prevail under Washing- ton’s command or at all, and that although retaliation had been threatened should he be sent to England for trial as a deserter, he could not be absolutely sure of escaping a deserter’s fate unless he made peace with the British. While no one will say that he lacked personal courage, any one who reads accounts of his conduct when he was captured will find that he was terribly apprenhensive of what his captors might do to him. But searching for a motive is idle if he wrote the paper and sub- mitted it to Howe. Not long ago I heard a competent historian express the view that Lee can only be ex- plained on the theory that he was mentally unbalanced. What has been quoted from Wash- ington, and much more which might be quoted, gives color to the belief that Washington, while not denying his gifts and accomplish- ments, regarded him as “violent and fickle” and therefore undependable. Washington cer- tainly gave him all the credit he deserved. After Lee's death, in a most courteous reply to a letter received from Lee's sister, who was in England and who wished information about the disposal of her brother’s estate, Washington said that her brother “possessed many great qualities.” This letter was written in 1783. But he un- derstood his character, as witness again his letter to Reed, in which he said, with clear reference to the course which Lee had pursued, “If T had ever assumed the character of a mil- itary genius and an officer of experience; under these false colors I had solicited the command I was honored with, or if, after my appointment I had driven on under the sole guidance of my own judgment and will, and misfortunes, the result of obstinacy and mis- conduct and not of necessity, had followed, I should have thought myself an object for the lash not only of his pen but of the pen of every other writer, and a fit subject for public resentment.” When we think of Lee as thus depicted, of his excessive vanity and grandiose delusions, of his hahit of quarreling with and vilifying all who would not bend to his ambition and wishes, which was no less true of him while in England than during the Revolution; of his astonishing variableness of temper and de- meanor, of his untruthfulness, which was never more strongly illustrated than in claiming to be the author of the letters of Junius; of his abnormal and eccentric manner of living, and of his strange last will and testament, we may perhaps reasonably and charitably concur im the belief that he lived and acted in the twi- light zone where have dwelt those sometimes brilliant and well educated men whose sanity may seriously be questioned. Coats ofArms Long ago, it was customary for families to adopt a symbol in the form of a badge or emblem worn on the shield, helmet, or banner of the fighting men of the family. The origin of coats of arms, however, dates from the time of the Crusades in medieval Europe. At that period it became necessary to devise some manner of identifying the 2 W.‘.D* leaders of the numerous bands of warriors that composed the Christian armies. The leaders marked and colored their shields in a variety of ways, so as to be distinctive of individuals, families or communities. Now, the coat of arms used as a family sym- bol, consists of the figure of a shield, decorated with the colors and emblems of the family. The shield shape represents the orginal shield used in war, for it was there that the arms were anciently borne. POSERS The posers below cover n.any different fields of knowledge. You can't expect to answer them all immediately. 1. Of what State is Comdr. Byrd a native? 2. On what lake is Chicago located? 3. Where do Kodiak bears originate? 4. Who wrote “Black Beauty?” 5. What wood is used to make mothproof chests? ANSWERS. 1. Virginia. 2. Lake Michigan. 3. Kodiak Island, near Alaska. 4. Anna Sewell. 5. Cedar. RIDDLES Mayme Louise Strange has sent us these five riddles, and we must admit they're clever, In fact, some of them had us guessing for quite a while. See if you can solve these five in five minutes—you’ll have to put on your thinking cap to do it! 1. What evidence have we that Adam used sugar? 2. In what key should a declaration .of love be made? 3. What was it a blind man took at break- fast which restored his sight? 4. Mention the name of an object which has two heads, one tail, four legs on one side, two on the otker. 5. Why is an egg like a colt? ANSWERS. 1. Because he raised Cain. 2. Be mine ah! (B minor). 3. He took a cup and saucer (saw sir). 4. A lady on horseback. 5. Because it isn’t fit for use until it is broken. They'll All Wonder TO prepare for this clever stunt, draw the pic- ture of a nail or a hook on 2 piece of paper and hang the paper on the wall. Then an- nounce to your audience that, through your magical powers, you are actually able to use this picture of a hook to hang something on. A ring, key or any other small object made of steel can be used for the trick. You take this object, walk to the paper hanging on the wall, and carefully “hang” the object on the picture of a hook. And lo and behold, it stays there! The secret of the trick is a small, but strong magnet. In hanging up the paper on the wall, you secretly hang the magnet under the paper so that it is just behind the drawn hook. The steel object is held by the magnet, of course, and appears to be hanging on the wall. The trick will be still more mystifying if you take down the paper and magnet, conceal the magnet, and then ask your friends to try the stunt. Naturally, they will be unsuccessful. Boy on Columbus’ Ship The first Christian child who ever observed Christmas Eve in the New World was a boy whose name we do not even know. It happened in this way: On Christmas Eve, Christopher Columbus, with two of his three ships, the Santa Maria and the Nina, was cruising around on his way to Guarico to pay the chief there a visit. Columbus and his men, weary from the continual watching and feeling secure because of the calm sea and the favorable wind, went to sleep and left the Santa Maria in the care of a boy. And what a sad Christmas Eve it was for him! While he was on watch alcne the ship struck a sand bar and settled, a wreck, into New World waters. As the Nina was too small to take aboard the crew of the Santa Maria, Columbus and his men would have had an unhappy Christmas had not the chief of Guarico sent a fleet of canoes to the rescue. ANSWERS. 1. Cross-word puzzle solution: 2, TAIL, bail, ball, bale, bate, bite, KITE. WIND, wine, wire, wore, word, cord. 3. Shanghai, Manila, Singapore and Calcutta. 4. Keg, handkerchief, kettle, key, keyhole, keystone, kid, kindling, kink (in rope), knees, knife, knot, knob, knocker, knuckles, king, kite, khaki. 5. Wrath, add M, form Warmth. Harp, add C, form Parch.